To: Slings and Arrows
Knowing what she did about her family history, another option would have been extremely close monitoring hoping that she fell into the 10% chance that she wouldn't get it. Not sure about prophylactic mastectomy. Probably best to get the advice of several surgeons.
To: johniegrad
Yeah, holy smoke! At her young age, couldn't she wait at least a few more years to enjoy her youth, undergo careful screening and watch for scientific breakthroughs in monitoring and treatment?
How many women die of incurable breast cancer at very young ages? Is this article even for real?
8 posted on
07/01/2004 6:34:35 PM PDT by
Hank Rearden
(Refuse to let anyone who could only get a government job tell you how to run your life.)
To: johniegrad
A double mastectomy is major surgery. I am suspicious that a physician would perform the surgeries in good conscience, with no clinical presentation beyond family history.
This is a dangerous precedent.
9 posted on
07/01/2004 6:34:51 PM PDT by
NautiNurse
(Godspeed to the new Iraqi government)
To: johniegrad
If I were her, I probably would have waited until she was done having children so that she could breast feed them.
Also, the longer you breast feed helps reduce your chance of getting breast cancer.
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